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CHARLES F. FILOR, OF TRENTON, NEV JERSEY.

ICE-SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,649, dated January 10, 1899.

Application tiled September 23, 1898. Serial No. 691,686. (No model.) Y

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that I, CHARLES F. FILoE, of Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ice-Skates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide an im proved lock for the heel and the sole clamps of a skate, the lock being exceedingly simple, durable, and effective and adapted through the medium of a lever for the final adjustment of the said heel and sole clamps.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the locking devices attached to the sole and the heel clamps that either of said clamps may receive an initial or broad adjustment without disturbing the adjustment of the other.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the runner of the skate that it will offer the least possible resistance tothe ice.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved skate, in positive lines showing the clamps as closed and in dotted lines as open. Fig. 2 is a side elevation i of the skate with the clamps closed. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1 through the heel and sole plates and their clamps, the said section being likewise taken through the lock-links and lever connected therewith. Fig. 4t is a transverse section taken substantially on the line 4. 4 of Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of supporting-pins for the adjusting mechanism, and Fig. 7 is a perspective View of a Washer used in connection with the said pins.

The runner A is provided near the front with upwardly-extending standards 10 and 11, upon which standards the sole-plate 12 is secured, and at the rear the runner is provided with another standard 13, to which the heel-plate 14 is attached, the forward end of the heel-plate being provided with an up- In order that the runner may have the least possible bearing on the ice, that portion of the runner which would be below the instep of the foot is npwardly curved, as shown at 15 in Figs. 2 and 3, so that this portion of the runner does not come in contact with the ice, but a firm bearing of the runner is obtained on the ice beneath both the sole and theheel plates.

Two sole-clamps 16 and 17 are employed, thev said clamps being curved in opposite directions, so as to extend beyond opposite sides of the sole-plate, said clamps 16 and 17 being beneath the sole-plate and passing through guides 17. The outer forward end of each of the sole-clamps is provided with an upwardly-extending flange 18, and the rear ends of the said clamps are adapted to meet, the end of one clamp being fitted to turn on the end of the other clamp, and at the connected portions of the two clamps their inner faces 19 are straight or practically so.

A pivot-pin 2O is provided for the soleclamps. This pin is passed through the overlapping rear ends of the clamps and, as shownin Fig. 6, is provided with a head a, which is located above the uppersurface of the clamps, a cylindrical surface a immediately' below the head, around which the clamps turn, and a shank a2, which extends beyond the under faces of the clamps, opposite surfaces of said shank being' flattened, as is also shown in Fig. 6.

The heel-clamp 2l is provided at its rear end with upwardly-extending flanges 22 and at its center with a longitudinal slot 23, which extends from the rear end of the clamp to a point near its center, the said slot receiving the rear standard 13 of the runner, and abatten 24, attached tothe heel-plate, serves as a guide for the heel-clamp.

A pin 25 is located at the forward end of the heel-clamp. This pin is provided with a head b, as shown in Fig. 5, the head being countersunk in the upper face of the heelclamp, and a cylindrical surface b below the head contained within the openin g in the heelclamp, and a shank b2, flattened at opposite sides, which shank extends beyond the under face of the said heel-clamp. A lever 26 is adapted to operate the adjusting and locking devices for the clamps. This lever is shown IOO open in dotted lines in Fig. l and is mounted to turn around the upper reduced portion of a stud 27, secured to the arched portion of the runner and extending beyond the upper edge thereof, as shown particularly in Fig. 4, and the lever is held in position on the stud by a cap-screw 28, which is screwed into the said stud.

In connection with the lever 26 two links B and C are employed, the link B bein'g adapted for connection with the heel-clamp and the link C with the sole-clamp of the skate. The inner end 29 of each of the said links is curved, and the curved surfaces of the links are made to face one another, their concaved edges being opposing edges. The shank or body30 of each link is exteriorly threaded, and the curved portion of the link B is pivoted on a pin 31 at one side ot the fulcrum ol' the lever 2G, while the curved portion of the link C is pivoted by a pin 32 at the opposite side of the fulcrum of the lever 2G; but the pivotal connections between the links B and C and the lever 26 are out of alinement with the center of the fulcrum of said lever, so that when the curved portions of the links `are brought close together by the movement of the lever 26 they will automatically lock themselves in such position.

The threaded shank of the link C is passed loosely through an openingin the shank a2 of the pin 20, and washers 33 are loosely placed on the threaded shank of the link C, which washers have bearing against the flat surfaces of the pin 2O and against the under surface ot the sole-clamps. Lock-nuts 3l and 35 are screwed upon the threaded shank of the link C, one to an engagement with each washer It is obvious that by shifting the nuts 3l and35 the throw of the sole-clamps may be regulated, since the sole-clamps are moved to and from the sole by the movement of the aforesaid link C. The threaded shank of the link B is loosely passed through the shank b2 of the pin 25, carried by the heel-clamp, and washers 3G are loosely mounted on the said threaded shank, engaging with the fiat sur- A faces ofthe shank of the pin 25, and locknuts 37 and 3S are screwed upon the shank of the link B to an engagement with said washers, whereby the throw of the heel-clamp may be regulated independently of the throw of the sole-clamps.

that when the lever 26 is carried outward to open the clamps the shoe may be readily placed on the sole and heel plates. After the shoe is in position on the skate the lever 2G is carried inward or toward the runner and the curved portions of the links are drawn together, thus drawing the clamps inward, as shown in positive lines in Fig. l; but when the lever is carried outward to open the clamps the curved portions of the links B and C are carried away from one another, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. l.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. In a skate, the combination, with the heel-plate, the sole-plate, the heel-clamp and sole-clamps, of a lever f ulcrumed between the heel and sole plates, links pivoted to the lever, at opposite sides of its fulcrum, one lever being connected to the heel-clamp and the other lever being connected to the sole-clamps, means vfor adjusting the throw of the heelclamp and means for adjusting the throw of the sole-clamps, substantially as specified.

2. In a skate, the combination, with a heelplate, a sole-plate, a clamp held to slide upon the heelplate, and oppositely-diverging clamps held to slide upon the sole-plate, the sole-clamps being pivotally connected at their rear ends, of a lever fulcrumed between the sole and heel clamps, adjusting-links connected one with the sole-clamps and the other with the heel-clamp, the inner ends of the links being oppositely curved and pivoted to the lever, one at each side of its fulcrum, the pivot-points of the links being out of the center of the fulcrum of the lever, and means, substantially as described, for independently adjusting each link upon the clamp with which it is connected, whereby the throw of either the heel-clamp or the sole-clamps may be separately regulated, for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES F. FILOR.

W'itnesses:

EMIL M. OPPENHEIM, HENRY OPPENHEIM.

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